How to Summarize Handwritten Notes with ChatGPT
Have you ever had the experience of handwritten notes at study sessions or conferences, and even if you read them again, you don't really know what you wrote, or you don't have time to organize them?
In recent years, how to organize and summarize the contents of handwritten notes with AI has been attracting attention. In particular, ChatGPT Plus now allows you to read images, summarizing and converting the contents of notes as they are.
In this article, we will introduce you to specific ways to use ChatGPT to efficiently organize handwritten notes.
Step 1: Take a Note with Your Phone
First, take a handwritten note with your smartphone.
There are three points to be aware of:
- Take photos in a well-lit place (natural light is ideal)
- Shooting from directly above (Oblique and bending affect reading accuracy)
- Make sure the text is clear (black pen is recommended over thin pencil)
By carefully photographing each page at a time, the accuracy of character recognition on the ChatGPT side will be improved.
Step 2: Let ChatGPT Load the Image
The ChatGPT Plus plan allows image input.
Use it in the following flow:
- Open the ChatGPT chat screen
- Upload an image of the notebook you took
- In the message field, type "Please summarize this note"
This alone allows the AI to read the handwritten content and summarize it in an easy-to-understand manner.
Supplement: If there are some unreadable characters, ChatGPT will supplement the content from the context before and after, generating the most natural summaries possible.
Step 3: Creative Instructions Increase Accuracy
The strength of ChatGPT lies in the fact that the output results change depending on the instructions (prompts).
You can add specific requests such as the following to get more application-specific results:
- "Summarize this content in 5 lines or less"
- "Rephrase it so that even junior high school students can understand"
- "Summarize this content in the form of a slide heading."
- "Organize in to-do format"
In addition, by conveying premise information such as "This note is for studying XX", it will be possible to summarize more accurately.
Handwriting × AI's New Note-Taking Style
People tend to think that handwritten notebooks are old now that digitalization is advancing.
In fact, handwriting and AI are a great match.
- Handwriting: Strong in memory consolidation and encourages free thinking
- AI: Good at organizing, structuring, and summarizing
In other words, it is possible to divide the roles of writing and AI ** putting it together.
ChatGPT will naturally take on the problem of "I wrote but can't summarize it".
This is a very powerful approach that is common to all of study, work and research.
Summary: Maximizing the Value of Your Notes
The moment you write a notebook is not the goal.
How to increase the value of reading later is directly related to the efficiency of learning and work.
Now that I have a partner called ChatGPT,
Rather than "writing and it's over", with the idea of "letting AI summarize it because you wrote it",
Evolve your notes into more powerful information assets.